Book Series
Theorists of Myth
New & Published Titles:
Kenneth Burke on Myth
An Introduction
Kenneth Burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary form. He did not fit tidily into any… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93640-8 (Routledge)
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth
This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-8240-5936-1 (Routledge)
The Myth and Ritual School
J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists
The enduring importance of his book The Golden Bough keeps J.G. Frazer's name prominent on the list of the most significant figures in modern… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93963-8 (Routledge)
Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade
This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93939-3 (Routledge)
Rene Girard and Myth
An Introduction
In this comprehensive introduction to the work of contemporary French critic Rene Girard, Richard Golsan focuses on Girard's theory of myth and its connections to… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93777-1 (Routledge)
Jung and the Jungians on Myth
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was never more insightful and intriguing than when he discussed mythology. The key to understanding the Jungian approach to mythology lies… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93631-6 (Routledge)
Political Myth
Myth theorists characterize myths as stories that possess the status of sacred truth within one or more social groups. Flood discusses how political myth is… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93632-3 (Routledge)
Northrop Frye on Myth
Nortrop Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing all of the major literary genres--romance, comedy, satire, not just tragedy--to myth and ritual. This… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92905-9 (Routledge)
The Poetics of Myth
Eleazar Meletinsky considers myth the "prehistory" phase of literature. In The Poetics of Myth, he explores the mythological inheritance of specific images, myth as a… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92898-4 (Routledge)
Cassirer and Langer on Myth
An Introduction
read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2465-2 (Routledge)